[New post] Canada excels on the third day in Beijing

Chris Hockman posted: " BEIJING – Canada lifted up to third place on the medal tally after its strongest day at Beijing 2022. A record-breaking performance from Brian McKeever was a particular highlight. McKeever (guide: Graham Kennedy) won his 14th Paralympic Games gold med" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on Para Sports Canada excels on the third day in Beijing by Chris Hockman BEIJING – Canada lifted up to third place on the medal tally after its strongest day at Beijing 2022. A record-breaking performance from Brian McKeever was a particular highlight. McKeever (guide: Graham Kennedy) won his 14th Paralympic Games gold medal in his favorite event, the men's vision impaired long-distance cross country. "I'm still hungry. I still love training every day. When we are out there, we are still competing against each other on the training sessions." Brian McKeever Jake Adicoff (USA) (guide: Sam Wood) might be the one to take over McKeever's throne as he finished in a close second place. Zebastian Modin (SUI) (guide: Emil Joensson Haag) was behind the two North Americans to take bronze. Canada's good day continued in the women's standing which was claimed by Natalie Wilkie who was joined on the podium by teammate Brittany Hudak who claimed the bronze medal. Splitting the pair was American Sydney Peterson. Oksana Shyshkova (UKR) (guide: Andriy Marchenko) repeated her opening day heroics as she claimed gold in the women's vision impaired and is looking to control the classification. "I think I will realize my great achievement here after everything ends and I get home, but all our medals that our team win here we dedicate to Ukraine and to every citizen of Ukraine," Shyshkova said. In comparison to McKeever Taiki Kawayoke (JPN) claimed his maiden gold medal claiming the men's standing, finishing 90 seconds clear of the field. Canadian history continues in snowboard Photo: OIS/Thomas Lovelock History continued for the Canadian team on the snowboard slope as Lisa Dejong claimed her country's first medal in the sport, winning the women's snowboard-cross SB-LL2. Cecile Hernandez (FRA) claimed gold, the pair upsetting American Brenna Huckaby. Things got better for Canada in the men's SB-LL1 as Tyler Turner backed up his world championship finishing ahead of defending champion Mike Schultz (USA). "This is crazy. Four years ago I didn't even think I'd snowboard, and now standing on top of the podium, it's unbelievable." Tyler Turner It was an all-Chinese final in the men's SB-UL which shocked the sport after Maxime Montaggioni was eliminated in the quarter-finals. Ji Lija claimed the gold medal ahead of Wang Pengayo and Zhu Yonggang. Matti Suur-Hamari (FIN) defended his title in the men's SB-LL2 with two first-time medalists behind him. Garret Geros (USA) finished in second while Ben Tudhope (AUS) completed the podium. Big comeback sees Forster claim combined gold Photo: OIS/Simon Bruty After being disappointed to miss out on the downhill and super-G, Anna Lena-Forster (GER) claimed the gold medal in the women's sitting super combined. Coming fourth in the super-G, Forster had to overcome an almost 10-second deficit to claim the gold medal but was rapid in the slalom to win it. The gold ended Momoka Muraoka's (JPN) hope of sweeping the classification as she was forced to settle for second. There was another comeback in the women's standing as Ebba Aarsjoe (SWE) who came back from three seconds back in the super-G to claim the gold medal thanks to a great run in the slalom. That relegated Zhang Mengqui (CHN) to the silver medal. Jesper Pederson (NOR) claimed his second gold medal in as many days as he won the men's sitting. The Dutch pair of Jeroen Kampschreur and Nils de Langen rounded out the podium. After finally breaking through for his first Paralympic title Arthur Bauchet doubled up as he won the men's standing. Santeri Kiiveri (FIN) claimed his country's first alpine Paralympic medal finishing in second while Adam Hall (NZL) finished third. Henrieta Farkasova (SVK) (guide: Michal Cerven) claimed yet another gold medal, her 11th. A stunning slalom run pushed her past Zhu Daqing (CHN) (guide: Yan Hanhan). The men's race was won by Giacomo Bertagnolli (ITA) (guide: Andrea Ravelli). Baltics claim first curling wins Photo: OIS/Bob Martin It was a historic day for Estonia and Latvia as both managed their first Paralympic curling wins. Estonia came out victorious in the Baltic derby before stunning the defending silver medalists Norway. In Latvia's second game they shocked the world championship silver medalists Sweden to get on the board. China had its best day of the Bonspiel so far, winning both of its games today. The hosts beat South Korea 9-4 and Switzerland 7-4 to secure a 3-3 record. Canada fell for the first time of the tournament as Sweden stunned the defending champions 6-3 in the morning session. Photo: OIS/Thomas Lovelock This free site is ad-supported. Learn more ​ Chris Hockman | March 7, 2022 at 2:40 pm | Tags: Australia, Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, Henrieta Farkasova, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States | Categories: Alpine Skiing, Beijing 2022, Nordic Skiing, Paralympic Games, Snowboard | URL: https://wp.me/p7IY6E-wp Comment    See all comments    Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Para Sports. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://paralympicsportsnews.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/canada-excels-on-the-third-day-in-beijing/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com